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Theater pops up all over
STS does Grease Theatrical director Laurie Sepe-Marder was at Brio’s, the Phoenicia pizzeria, seeking a slice and worrying about how she was going to cast the male lead, Danny Zuko, in the STS...
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Down to the Crossroads
Son House, Muddy Waters and Peter Green. (illustrations by Margie Greve) The famous tale, as John Milward relates it in his new book Crossroads: How the Blues Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll (and Rock Saved the...
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Revived Woodstock Playhouse celebrates 75th anniversary
Director Randy Conti. (photo by Dion Ogust) The ladies are in full costume, with hoop skirts, bustiers and Victorian-era high heels, while the men are in tank tops and shorts. Not that it matters once...
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Petersham Handmade House Tour
Her first book, Under the North Light, the Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petersham, was recently heralded with prestigious awards. Now author Lawrence Webster will lead a tour of Storybook, the home...
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Chen, Miró Quartet open Maverick Season
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Maverick Concerts’ 2013 season will be emphasizing both Britten the composer and Britain his country. At the first performance, Sunday afternoon at 4, a relatively little known...
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A Winter’s Tale at Comeau
(Photo by Alan Carey) A jealous king, an abandoned child, a message from the Delphic oracle, and a princess ignorant of her royalty are the elements at the core of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, to...
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Breslau in one woman show for PAW
Sharon Breslau Sharon Breslau, whose one woman play Gloriously Naked & Flailing opens in a fresh new version at the Byrdcliffe Theatre Thursday for two weekends of Friday and Saturday evening...
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In the midst of controversy, new film will look at local railroad history
Catskill-Cairo Railroad engine. When West Hurley filmmaker Tobe Carey started making a documentary about local railroads, a year and a half ago, the project looked like an uncomplicated history leading...
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Festival of the Voice prepares for its biggest event yet
(photo by Dion Ogust) It took the organizers of the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice a whole day to design a schedule for rehearsals and sound checks to accommodate 60 soloists, 110...
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Every penny helps
Louis Otey and Maria Todaro (photo by Dion Ogust) “It’s a chance to listen to international stars in a rustic, picturesque setting — without having to pay hundreds of dollars,” said Louis Otey,...
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Guitar Festival kicks off with Oriole9 opening
(Photos by Norman Bacon) Roger Shultis, 85, used the particular saw he gave to Rennie Cantine when he was young on Ohayo Mountain, as did his father and his grandfather. According to Cantine, the saw...
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First film for local woman profiles changes in Woodstocker’s life
Jogger John Kaleigh Griffin grew up in Woodstock and Olive, graduated from Onteora, and then SUNY New Paltz with a double major in English and Media Production, served as an intern at Beacon’s Beahive...
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Every penny helps
Louis Otey and Maria Todaro (photo by Dion Ogust) “It’s a chance to listen to international stars in a rustic, picturesque setting — without having to pay hundreds of dollars,” said Louis Otey,...
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Concerts on the Woodstock Village Green begin again
Students from Paul Green’s Rock Academy (here rehearsing for Pink Floyd’s The Wall, as performed last weekend) will be on the bill for the Concerts on the Green. Miss the Rock Academy take on Pink...
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Champions of Love
Warren Bernhardt and Marc Black. “We were playing tunes, just Marc and I,” says pianist Warren Bernhardt, from his deck on a lake in Wisconsin, “and I said, y’know we sound really good, we should do an...
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Woodstock Film Fest to honor Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich Within a month the 2013 Woodstock Film Festival will be history…and its new posters, t-shirts and other paraphernalia all collectibles. We’ll be running wrap up stories on the various...
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WSA mounts historic Woodstock Landscape show
Speicherhouse by Charles Rosen, in the WSA landscape show. What is it about a place that attracts people? Fords and falls, bays and crossroads? But what draws artists and thinkers, and those wishing to...
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Concerts on the Woodstock Village Green begin again
Students from Paul Green’s Rock Academy (here rehearsing for Pink Floyd’s The Wall, as performed last weekend) will be on the bill for the Concerts on the Green. Miss the Rock Academy take on Pink...
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Theater pops up all over
STS does Grease Theatrical director Laurie Sepe-Marder was at Brio’s, the Phoenicia pizzeria, seeking a slice and worrying about how she was going to cast the male lead, Danny Zuko, in the STS...
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Pele the conqueror!
Pele deLappe, by her father, Wes deLappe Part I During much of the last century it wasn’t so rare a thing for an extraordinary talent to pass through town, crystallizing a moment in art. Such work soon...
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